John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

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John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton was a 19th-century English Catholic historian, politician, and moralist best known for the dictum "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

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instanceOf Catholic
human
liberal
moralist
peer
politician
alsoKnownAs John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton NERFINISHED
Lord Acton NERFINISHED
birthDate 1834-01-10
birthPlace Kingdom of the Two Sicilies NERFINISHED
Naples NERFINISHED
countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom
deathDate 1902-06-19
deathPlace Kingdom of Bavaria NERFINISHED
Tegernsee NERFINISHED
editorOf The Cambridge Modern History NERFINISHED
educatedAt Oscott College NERFINISHED
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
surface form: University of Munich
employer Cambridge University
surface form: University of Cambridge
ethnicGroup English
familyName Dalberg-Acton NERFINISHED
father Sir Ferdinand Richard Edward Acton NERFINISHED
fieldOfWork modern history
moral philosophy
political philosophy
fullName John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton NERFINISHED
givenName John NERFINISHED
languageSpoken English
French
German
mainInterest liberty
relationship between power and morality
memberOf House of Commons of the United Kingdom
House of Lords
mother Marie Louise Pelline de Dalberg NERFINISHED
movement classical liberalism
nobleRank baron
nobleTitle Baron Acton NERFINISHED
notableFor dictum "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely" NERFINISHED
notableWork Lectures on Modern History NERFINISHED
The History of Freedom NERFINISHED
numberOfChildren 5
occupation editor
historian
moral philosopher
politician
professor
politicalAlignment British Liberal Party NERFINISHED
positionHeld Member of Parliament for Carlow Borough
Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge NERFINISHED
religion Roman Catholicism
spouse Marie von Arco-Valley NERFINISHED
studentOf Ignaz von Döllinger NERFINISHED

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Lord Acton birthName John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton